Sen. Rand Paul carefully weighed in on the media escalating a purposely driven feud between President-elect Donald Trump and Rep. John Lewis.

Paul did what many liberals can never do, and that speaks with common sense. Paul has worked with Lewis before, but it stated in this video that doesn’t make the congressman immune from criticism.

Lewis publicly said Trump was illegitimate and I guess people thought Trump should just sit there not say anything back. Liberals wouldn’t sit there and neither would strong-willed Republicans, so why should Trump.

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CNN Jake Tapper tried to take the interview against Trump but Paul reminded Tapper that Lewis is a partisan and he should be able to respond to partisan issues and the conversation shouldn’t be taken back to he’s disrespecting civil rights.

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